Eagle: MUST READ J. B. White @RattlerGator 72 Item Thread

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300 Million Talons…

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Stephen E. Arnold: How Complex Systems Fail

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Stephen E. Arnold

Failure: The Reasons Are Piling Up

Years ago I read a monograph by some big wig in Europe. As I recall, that short book boiled down failure to one statement: “Little things add up.” The book contained a number of interesting industrial examples. “How Complex Systems Fail” is a modern take on the failure of systems. The author has cataloged 18 reasons. Here are three of the reasons, and it may be worth your time to check out the other 15.

  • Complex systems contain changing mixtures of failures latent within them.
  • Change introduces new forms of failure.
  • Failure free operations require experience with failure.

I would like to add a couple of additional reasons for failure:

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Berto Jongman: Future of Web 3.0 Internet Not Bright At All . . .

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Internet 2021: Here's what the new year will (and won't) bring

Now more than ever we depend on the internet for work, school, and fun. Will the internet providers rise to the challenge? Probably not.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet

. . . as Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman and a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, said, we must recognize that the “internet is no longer ‘nice to have,' it is critical.

Phi Beta Iota: This will be discussed in The Steele Report on 4 January. The future Web 3.0 Internet demands comprehensive data access and integrity, sense-making tools for the individual, individual sovereignty protections, AND a working global Internet that can meet the needs of rural impoverished users.

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